Simmons & Simmons

EU Competition and Data Protection

Alejandro is a partner in our EU Competition Law and Tech Regulation practice based in Brussels and in Madrid. He currently specialises in antitrust and commercial regulation, compliance and investigations, as well as in related disputes and litigation, in a variety of sectors including TMT, energy, consumer products and e-commerce.

Specifically, Alejandro advises clients on the interplay between competition law and the GDPR, cybersecurity, and other related aspects of EU tech and platform regulations. Throughout his career, he has had first-hand and material involvement in important competition matters in the TMT sector, including two of the four Google EU investigations since 2010, and two four-to-three mergers in the telecoms sector (WIND/Hutchison/JV and Telefónica Deutschland/E-Plus). He has developed its expertise on competition and data privacy law and policy, and advises clients on the impact on their business of future EU regulation, such as the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act.

Alejandro originally trained at the energy merger unit of the European Commission. Over the years, he has represented and acted for clients in numerous mergers across a variety of sectors, including the following:

the European Commission, in two in-depth reviews in the gensets and paper European markets. a telecommunications service provider, in the completion of its €21.8 billion JV with its competitor in Italy, obtaining a clearance with remedies. an insurance service provider in its acquisition of a brokerage business representing €800 million in revenues and €1.9 billion in total assets. a manufacturer of pulp and paper products in its $1.45 billion acquisition of a competitor. a manufacturer of printers and electronic devices in its $3 billion acquisition of a networks equipment manufacturer. a cosmetics manufacturer in its $240 million acquisition of a competitor. a beverage producer in its $3.2 billion acquisition of a manufacturer of home-beverage products.

Alejandro is qualified in Spain and in Belgium, and speaks fluently Spanish, English and French. He has an LL.M by the Université Libre de Bruxelles and an MBA by the University of Chicago, and is CIPP/E certified under the IAPP. He has co-edited two textbooks on e-commerce and on competition and trade in the pharmaceutical sector. He currently lectures on EU Competition Law at Queen Mary University, and on GDPR and EU tech regulation at King’s College University.

English, Spanish, French.

2019-2021: The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Master of Business Administration, MBA

2009-2010: Institute for European Studies, ULB (IEE-ULB), Master of Laws - LLM

2003-2009: Universitat de València, Licentiate degree, Law